Dillion vs Zillion - What's the difference?
dillion | zillion |
(slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
* 1982 , Roald Dahl, The BFG
* 2012 , Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Yo-Yo
* 2014 , Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
(slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
* 2008 , "
Zillion is a synonym of dillion.
In hyperbole lang=en terms the difference between dillion and zillion
is that dillion is an unspecified large number (of) while zillion is an unspecified large number (of).dillion
English
Noun
(en noun)- 'The human bean,' the Giant went on, 'is coming in dillions of different flavours.
- He'd been sitting in the car for a dillion years waiting for his mother to find her glasses.
- You have like a dillion books here, probably nobody would have even looked at it.
Synonyms
* See also .zillion
English
Noun
(en noun)- When I want to switch Groupwise domains I am forced to click the cancel button on a login dialog box a zillion times (I’m not exaggerating... much)
Brain tests show child wealth gap", BBC News , 6 December 2008:
- "We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens."
